{"product_id":"black-theology-and-the-menace-of-racial-apocalypse-lonergan-and-racial-reconciliation-hardback-9781487558017","title":"Black Theology and the Menace of Racial Apocalypse; Lonergan and Racial Reconciliation (Hardback) 9781487558017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Theology and the Menace of Racial Apocalypse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLonergan and Racial Reconciliation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCyril Orji (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487558017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRacism evolves. Black theology must be adaptable. For this reason, \u003cem\u003eBlack Theology and the Menace of Racial Apocalypse\u003c\/em\u003e argues that racism must take centre stage in Black theology because racism is an existential dread that inevitably confronts the Black person in their existential situation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book unfolds in two interwoven steps. First, it delves into the complex history of Black theology, examining its development across its first, second, and third waves. This critical study exposits the discomforting idea that something is missing and that this \"something\" makes Black theology seem a little deficient, as noted in the pioneering works of James Baldwin and other contemporary thinkers, challenging the hesitation to engage with ideas outside Black experience. The second step draws from multidisciplinary sources, including brain research on cognitive bias and psychological works on implicit bias and microaggressions. Effectively utilizing the methodological work of Bernard Lonergan, the book argues that incorporating \"white\" sources can enhance Black theology's articulation against racism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn doing so, the book demonstrates how this interpretative mechanism can help overcome societal ideological differences, as well as help meaningfully address the ever-evolving problem of racism for Christian theology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Seven Horse Riders of Racial Apocalypse \u003cbr\u003e A Statement of the Problem\u003cbr\u003e Recovering the Heroic Virtues and the Poetic Imagination of James Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e Naming the Seven Horse Riders of Racial Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Perplexing Matter of Black Theology\u003cbr\u003eContext of Black Theology and the Category of Meaning\u003cbr\u003eWhy the American Situation Finds the Term \"Black\" Appropriate\u003cbr\u003eMediating Writers and Theologians\u003cbr\u003e(a) James Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e(b) James H. Cone\u003cbr\u003e(c) J. Deotis Roberts\u003cbr\u003e(d) Katie Geneva Cannon\u003cbr\u003eShift Towards a Second Wave\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Nature of Prejudice: A Psychological and Theological Understanding\u003cbr\u003eWhy Black Theology Has Not Paid Attention to the Data of Consciousness\u003cbr\u003ePrejudice: A Provisional Judgment?\u003cbr\u003eWhat an Application of Lonergan's Notion of Common Sense to Critical Race Theory Yields for Race Discourse\u003cbr\u003eThe Four Kinds of Common Sense Bias\u003cbr\u003e(a) Dramatic Bias\u003cbr\u003e(b) Individual Bias\u003cbr\u003e(c) Group Bias\u003cbr\u003e(d) General Bias of Common Sense\u003cbr\u003eThe Structures of Sin\u003cbr\u003eHow Black Theology Might Appropriate and Use Lonergan's Notion of Bias\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Karen Phenomenon and the Conceptualist Problem of White Privilege Discourse\u003cbr\u003eA Truncated Discourse\u003cbr\u003eEngaging the Normative View of White Privilege\u003cbr\u003eThe COVID-19 World and the Quest for an Explanatory Definition\u003cbr\u003eKaren and Systemic Racism\u003cbr\u003eWhite Privilege: A Theological Problem for Black Theology\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Implicit Bias and the Zero-Sum Game Problem\u003cbr\u003eThe Perduring Myth That Blacks Pose a Racial Threat\u003cbr\u003eThe Recurring Problem of Dramatic Bias\u003cbr\u003eIt Is Not Microaggression but Dramatic Bias\u003cbr\u003eImplicit Bias and the Cycles of Decline: Structural Injustice\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Overcoming Racism and Conversion\u003cbr\u003eConversion: A Resistance against Resistance\u003cbr\u003eThe Five Dimensional Conversion Process (5D-C Process)\u003cbr\u003e(a) Religious Conversion\u003cbr\u003e(b) Moral Conversion\u003cbr\u003e(c) Intellectual Conversion\u003cbr\u003e(d) Affective Conversion\u003cbr\u003e(e) Psychic Conversion\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52596008681752,"sku":"9781487558017","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-theology-and-the-menace-of-racial-apocalypse-lonergan-and-racial-reconciliation-hardback-9781487558017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}